“I know to trip is just to fall…” – Led Zeppelin, “The Rover” When I was doing my research for my Playlist: Songs From 1975 I not only discovered Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turned 50 this year, but so did Led Zeppelin’s epic double-album Physical Graffiti. My my, what a year 1975 was!…
“And there’s something about the future better left unknown…” – Joe Bonamassa/Sammy Hagar “Fortune Teller Blues” I stumbled across a new tune this week that apparently came out last Friday. The tune boasts a rather unexpected pairing – at least to me – of blues guitarist extraordinaire Joe Bonamassa and hard rock lead vocalist Sammy…
I got a text from an old friend, Carolina Phil, last Monday asking for a review of the new television special Ladies And Gentlemen, 50 Years Of SNL Music. I had no idea what he was talking about…I don’t watch a lot of network TV. I’m not saying that to sound like a snob, I’ll…
It’s probably acutely obvious to anybody who has read B&V, I kinda dig music. But despite this deep-seated, visceral love of rock n roll, I never picked up an instrument. I used to joke that I couldn’t play the radio. I know people who can play or wanted to try and play. My brother played…
*Image taken from the internet and likely copyrighted Alas, I heard the news today that the last standing member of the legendary band, The Band, has moved on when Garth Hudson passed away “peacefully in his sleep.” Garth was the most soft spoken of the members of the Band and was the only member who…
It snuck up on me again this year, but I noticed we’ve completed our latest trip around the sun. As most people are spending the dawn of this new year, 2025, looking ahead – making resolutions, planning vacations and weddings – we at B&V, in what has become an annual tradition, are looking backwards. We’ve…
I looked at the calendar this Monday and thought, “My God, Xmas is only a week and a half away?” Could it be December already? It feels like only yesterday we kicked off 2024 with our annual 50-year lookback-playlist featuring rock n roll from 1974. And here I am wrapping presents already? It seems that…
Just in time for Christmas and all you folks looking for stocking stuffers, The Rolling Stones have gone back into the vault and released another gem of a live show. This time it’s Welcome To Shepherd’s Bush, recorded in June of 1999 at that legendary theater. I don’t know how many of these fabulous shows…
“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination We learned to talk” – Stephen Hawking with Pink Floyd, “Keep Talking” When you think about it, it really is a miracle that we can all communicate by talking to each other. And while that…
It’s been a busy year down at the George Harrison archives run by his wife Olivia and son Dhani. Earlier this year they finally got around to releasing Harrison’s pioneering charity show, The Concert For The People Of Bangladesh, on all the streaming services. And now they’ve released a new deluxe version of Harrison’s second…